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Dear Mr. Copland and Mr. Ellington

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Sonja Rivera

After gaining familiarity with the lives and music of Copland and Ellington, students write each a formal letter expressing how culture is reflected in music. Students create a bio-poem about the composer’s life and music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other

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TAGS
America, Art, Biography, Composer, Copland, History, Jazz, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary

Revolutionary Music

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Ann Callan

Students will gain an understanding of music’s relationship to the American, French and Russian revolutions. Students will also gain knowledge that music has changed over the last 200 years as a result of a musical revolution.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
America, Composer, Geography, History, Jazz, Stravinsky, Vocabulary, War

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring: A Myth is Born

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Gail Claus

This lesson will contrast Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (classical) and Stephane Furic's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (jazz), and the role the poems Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Bridge by Hart Crane, bring to the music.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts

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0

TAGS
America, Composer, Copland, Dance, Geography, History, Jazz, Literature, Poetry, Story

Autumn Leaves

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Jini Maxwell

This lesson involves two genres of music: a classical composition, Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, Autumn from Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi; and a jazz rendition of Autumn Leaves, by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, performed by Wynton Marsalis. The children are given and bring background information about the fall season, particularly how leaves fall off of a tree or blow in the wind. The children engage in an activity where they can drop a leaf and watch it fall or blow.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts

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0

TAGS
Art, Brass, Composer, Instruments, Jazz, Vocabulary

Learning Adjectives through the Duke

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Rachel Belmon

The students will describe the life of Duke Ellington and his contributions to the field of jazz. The students will create "nick names" similar to jazz performers of the 1920's by using adjectives that describe themselves. The students will create an original poem using a variety of popular vocabulary from the 1920s as well as adjectives that describe a mood they feel from listening to the musical selection. The students will create an illustration to decorate an adjective word wall in the room.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts

COMMENTS
0

TAGS
Composer, History, Jazz, Orchestra, Poetry, Vocabulary, Voice

Great Gatsby's Jazz

Posted May 16, 2011 by Minu Dave

Students will understand the qualities of jazz and connect the music to The Great Gatsby, namely Fitzgerald’s writing style and his words. Students will also make a final determination whether jazz is a representation of social status and class.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12

SUBJECT
Language Arts

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TAGS
History, Jazz, Literature

Duke Ellington and the Nutcracker Suite

Posted Jun 07, 2011 by Heidi Aarts Michels

Students will be introduced to the great jazz composer and band leader, Duke Ellington by listening to his re-composed, re-orchestrated version of Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, following a previously taught thematic lesson about Tchaikovsky's classic. Students use there prior knowledge of musical concepts and the instrumentation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite to recognize similar melodies in Ellington's work to that of Tchaikovsky. Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0.1MB)

GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts

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TAGS
America, Brass, Instruments, Jazz, Melody, Orchestra, Tchaikovsky

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